A handful of veterans from Mike’s Young Explorers program went to Morocco last month, where they climbed Toubkal, the highest mountain in North Africa. For a summary of their trip, check out the Pangaea Project blog report here.
Nine hundred seconds on stage in Berlin! When we were in Serbia this August to have the Ecocamp 2013 in Tara National Park, Simon approached me at some point asking “Ey Sasi, let's apply for this nine hundred second presentation in Berlin!” Of course, I had no clue what he was talking about. Nine […]
Roughly every 11hours in South Africa, a rhino is poached for their horn. In 2012, 668 rhinos were illegally killed and in 2013 alone, the figure is already on 232. At this rate it is predicted that approximately 900 will be poached by the end of the year. Rhino poaching in South Africa has been […]
Even though the weather was miserable the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of September, it didn't dampen the spirits of the 20 or so Young Explorers that came from miles away to gather in Château-d'Oex, Switzerland. A fun time was had by all as the group of International youths did activities in the nature, […]
Blog written by Nadja and Tanguay They say time flies when you’re having fun and during last 3 weeks we all realized the true meaning of that sentence. Our day began the same way yesterday finished: packing. We were all trying to find our stuff around the boat and not think about our soon departure. […]
Blog written by Seb and Nora Our final full day of the expedition. The day started early at Moose’s house after an awesome night scouting for illegal abalone poachers in Scarborough. We packed up and headed down to the beach again for a beach cleanup; this beach was actually relatively clean, speaking from experience I […]
Blog witten by Nadja Shark diving tomorrow!! To get there was a long drive away however, so we drove there on the 29th and then spent the night. On the way we stopped and had a look at an African penguin colony. We managed to loose each other afterwards so it took us forever to […]
Blog written by Seb & Laura Up early for the table mountain climb, we almost overslept completely as two peoples alarms didn’t go off! But we managed to prepare in time and woke up to the familiar site of Michael & Ben, two staff from our selection camp who were working in Port Elizabeth on […]
Blog written by Ollie & Nadja Our second day at the Masiphumelele township started with a warm welcome and songs performed by the choir of the local elementary school. We were welcomed by the principal of the school and were then grouped up in teams for tree planting. We picked up our shovels and trees, […]
Blog written by Nora and Robert Today we spent the entire day in the township of Masiphumelele. The name of this township means success and it recently won an award for being exceptionally peaceful. We met our guides, Ali and Charlotte, from the international volunteer organization i-to-i who gave us a tour of the township. […]